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- Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:25 pm
- Forum: Steam Locomotives
- Topic: Any Wheel and size!
- Replies: 79
- Views: 19380
Re: Any Wheel and size!
Sounds like the ex-Midland traffic inspector asking the ex-L&NW driver, post 1923, "Where's your Pilot engine?"; pause, shift pipe in teeth, check pocket watch, reply disdainfully (as ex-Premier Line to ex-second best) "Back in 't shed, where 'e belongs!" - or in this case, &...
- Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:10 pm
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: The Burford Branch
- Replies: 391
- Views: 116845
Re: The Burford Branch
Assuming you're using something more recent than iOS 8, the iPhone does have white balance adjustment. Can't say how effective it is or whether you can use it with a grey card, but I can testify that on the odd occasions when I use my wife's iPhone it captures much warmer images than my (seldom colo...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 6:41 pm
- Forum: Steam Locomotives
- Topic: DJ Models Austerity
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4775
Re: DJ Models Austerity
Anyone wanting an RT chassis may have to wait a bit at the moment, Robert is taking some time off from model supply because the day job (stepping in when the big railway falls over) is proving a bit busy - see announcement/discussion/best wishes etc in the other place.
- Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:50 pm
- Forum: Steam Locomotives
- Topic: BR Standard Class 2, 2-6-2 tank
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4387
Re: BR Standard Class 2, 2-6-2 tank
Very nice, reminds me of my Spottings days at Bletchley in the early 60s. We had 84002 & 84004 which used to work the Wolverton to Newport Pagnell (Newport Nobby), Bletchley to Banbury and Bletchley to Bedford Push/Pull Services. Yes, 84004 was the usual stand-in for 41222 on Nobby when the lat...
- Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:03 pm
- Forum: Serjt-Dave
- Topic: Second time Around
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3900
Re: Second time Around
FWIW all three of Noel's vans seem to match prototype examples I have seen (according to how they display on my laptop screen and my personal colour memory, of course). I'm intrigued by the Humbrol Satin Red, though. The current (acrylic ) railway series has several reds, but they are all matt. The ...
- Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:53 pm
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland / Monsal Dale pre 1903
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 246542
Re: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland / Monsal Dale pre 1903
Regarding sleeper-built stops, by coincidence I was exposed to a drawing of one earlier today, which can be found here. I had previously thought the version offered by PECO (which I confess I've used from time to time on 'hidden' sidings) was a work of pure fiction, but perhaps not ...
- Mon Nov 26, 2018 11:23 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30678
Re: Exactoscale Products
As an active 'Airfix' modeller, but with a full set of singed fingertips from years of solder and PCB track construction, I can confirm that building a simple turnout, whether from prepared bits or from raw lengths of rail and sleeper, is a darn sight easier than producing a fully detailed version o...
- Mon Nov 26, 2018 10:54 am
- Forum: Baseboards and Carpentry
- Topic: Scenic modules
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9410
Re: Scenic modules
Excellent workmanship and instructive to see how the foam is being used. But Gibbon is worth more than that - the sidenotes alone make for an entertaining evening (although giggling over them in the school library is not necessarily the best way to impress your History master ...).
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 5:36 pm
- Forum: Hardwicke
- Topic: PH Designs Wagon Turntable
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5341
Re: PH Designs Wagon Turntable
Interesting. I like the look of the etchings, but I think I'll await the next part of the saga before placing an order (or trying to - T&Cs that say you'll get an e-mail with payment details are always a trifle off-putting, even if they do recognise there's more to the world than Little England...
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 9:45 am
- Forum: Hardwicke
- Topic: PH Designs Wagon Turntable
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5341
Re: PH Designs Wagon Turntable
Interesting. I like the look of the etchings, but I think I'll await the next part of the saga before placing an order (or trying to - T&Cs that say you'll get an e-mail with payment details are always a trifle off-putting, even if they do recognise there's more to the world than Little England,...
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:49 am
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: seeking tandem turnout template
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4943
Re: seeking tandem turnout template
Martin,
This may be a question better put in Templot Club than here (but I'm logged in now so I'll ask it anyway!) - how did you work out the second turnout had to be an A-7? Is it one of those things you just have to know, or am I missing something obvious (I usually do)?
This may be a question better put in Templot Club than here (but I'm logged in now so I'll ask it anyway!) - how did you work out the second turnout had to be an A-7? Is it one of those things you just have to know, or am I missing something obvious (I usually do)?
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:44 am
- Forum: Jeremy Suter
- Topic: GWR Steam Railmotor Chassis
- Replies: 247
- Views: 75419
Re: GWR Steam Railmotor Chassis
Once that is built I can move onto the roof seats and any other interior parts
Can't wait for the roof seats - must have been pretty windy up there ...
- Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:27 pm
- Forum: Other Buildings and Scenery
- Topic: Bridge arch question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3720
Re: Bridge arch question
Ah, fooled by a slope - thanks for clearing that up! I do love sighting panels (guilty as charged, m'lud, of blatantly over-using them whenever the possibility presents). Obviously that bridge was custom-made for one of my static dioramas ...
- Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:01 am
- Forum: Other Buildings and Scenery
- Topic: Bridge arch question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3720
Re: Bridge arch question
At the risk of spreading confusion where there should be none, am I right in thinking the photo shows a bridge with a (slight) skew, but the drawing is square-on?
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:44 am
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: Hessle Haven - a model of a railway
- Replies: 74
- Views: 28898
Re: Hessle Haven - a model of a railway
Still o/t, but just have to say I've always thought the Desert Air Force camo suits a Spit best. High Speed Silver I'm not so sure about.
- Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:32 am
- Forum: Serjt-Dave
- Topic: Happy Chappies
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1719
Re: Happy Chappies
A fine set of shovellors and steerers, if I may say so. What paints did you use? I've been doing a bit of dabbling with Xtracrylics and have been surprised that they're behaving better than Humbrol enamels in the little local chaleur we're having over here at the moment.
- Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:10 am
- Forum: Railway Buildings
- Topic: Platform clearance
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4209
Re: Platform clearance
That does look like a photo to be a bit wary of - the mortar between the bluebrick bulls (and, indeed, the stretchers below them) seems very recent, so I suspect the platform edge had a fair amount of 'tidying-up' sometime after the tracks were lifted. Overhanging edges do represent an ongoing maint...
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 2:10 pm
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: Ulpha Light Railway
- Replies: 188
- Views: 45755
Re: The Ulpha Light Railway
Based on many years swearing and cursing at narrow/mixed gauge layouts with 00-9, 12mm and 14mm track, I would say by all means keep any Peco 9mm plain track, if you can stand the 'crazy' sleepers (I think they do a 'mainline' version now, but assume yours is the original), but ditch any Peco turnou...
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 10:05 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: London Road Models temporary business disruption
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4019
Re: London Road Models temporary business disruption
Yes, do please let him know there are many of us hoping he makes a full and speedy recovery (and not just for business reasons - one of the (few) things I miss from UK exhibitions is the chance to chat with him). Sending all the positive thoughts I can muster at short notice, more to follow when the...
- Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:28 pm
- Forum: Guy Rixon
- Topic: The LNWR brown train
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6522
Re: The LNWR brown train
Guy, not an area of my expertise, but worth posing the question on the LNW Soc forum for Philip or A N Other to help you (if Jol doesn't pop along in a minute with the answer). I confess I can't really see from the drawing how the necessary articulation for curves and gradient changes would work on ...
- Wed May 16, 2018 6:23 pm
- Forum: North Norfolk
- Topic: Taking Shape?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2881
Re: Taking Shape?
Looks like someone got their No 1 and No 2 radius curves mixed up ...
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:21 pm
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: Construction of a Test Track
- Replies: 611
- Views: 140935
Re: Track Construction for a Test Track
Surely passing motors affecting trackside servos is a deliberate attempt to replicate the real railway - isn't that why signalboxes have to be encased in Faraday cases on overhead electrified lines?
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:03 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering mazak
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5335
Re: Sildering mazak
Yes Philip, that is one of the really "staggering" things about RMweb - repetition and circular arguments. One of the things which really, really annoys me is the unwarranted urge among some posters to quote things in their entirety, so you get the same posts duplicated or even triplicate...
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:11 am
- Forum: East Midlands Area Group
- Topic: NAG meeting 22nd March 2018 (film night "weathering")
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1405
Re: NAG meeting 22nd March 2018 (film night "weathering")
The shortage of Humbrol metallics is due to the fire earlier this year at Rustins' (Humbrol sub-contractors) warehouse, so tins are indeed like hens' teeth at present. Alternatives suggested in other places (not the usual one!) include Games Workshop (if you can figure out their naming 'system'!) or...
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 5:22 pm
- Forum: Railway Buildings
- Topic: English Goods Sheds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2334
Re: English Goods Sheds
The publication is posted on Historic England's website, and their terms and conditions allow reproduction by an individual for personal use. If you prefer to obtain your very own perfectly legal pre-printed 'hard copy' it is available from H.E.'s on-line bookshop for £14.99 in paperback. I found it...